Uriah11Heep on 29/6/2003 at 21:46
I installed Mandrake 8.0 in 2002. Now i use 9.0. It is a very intersting OS. Since I've begun typing my works there, i want to have more abilities this OS provides.
How about running Thief (1 or 2, maybe 3) in Linux Mandrake? Is it possible if i use some emulators (like winex)?
Uriah11Heep.
The Alchemist on 29/6/2003 at 22:31
Thief 1 will run ok, but software only. I've had no luck with Thief 2. Thief 3 should run well, because it's engine is based on the UT2k3 engine, and that game has native linux support out of the box.
I havent tried in a long time, maybe you can get opengl to work in Thief now. And maybe Thief 2 actually runs...
Ok I just checked the transgaming forums. Apprently with version 3.1 hardware acceleration works. Great. ^_^.
Also, Thief 2 works as well.
Wow, winex has gone far.
*emerges winex asap*
DC on 29/6/2003 at 22:36
First, the Thief forum would probably be a better place to post this. I have seen some threads on this subject in there, and the consensus seems to be that Thief (1) will work in software mode under Wine in Linux, but Thief 2 is a no go. Thief 3 is unlikely, but who knows? Time will tell. Anyway, do a search for Thief Linux in the Thief General forum and see what you find.
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Apparently I was wrong about Thief 2. See Alchs post above.
Uriah11Heep on 29/6/2003 at 22:43
It is not my idea of posting here, it is sure to be one of the moderators/admins. Thank you for your advice guys.
The Alchemist on 29/6/2003 at 22:44
I checked and apparently SS2 works with v3.1 of WineX also, just fyi. ^_^
antonio5michalis on 30/6/2003 at 16:58
Sweet! I saw this post last night, so I emerged winex-cvs - everything works fine!! A bit slow, esp. DromEd, and i had to no-cd crack the thief executable, because otherwise it gave me some sort of error, but regardless, it worked! yay!!! Back to DromEding... :sly: :thumb: :cool:
sNeaksieGarrett on 25/1/2008 at 02:15
Sorry to revive an old thread, but is it possible (or rather, has anyone done it successfully) to run thief 1 and 2 on ubuntu using Wine ? (and properly? hardware on)
I read on Winehq.com that System Shock 2 will run in linux (I think ubuntu as well) so i bet thief probably would. Winehq said they support directx, if so, that means thief would run on it well. :)
Huckeye on 27/1/2008 at 18:10
I think it works with hardware on now, but its slow. Also there are still 2 unresolved issues (cut scenes still don't work, and you have a mouse cursor in the middle of the screen).
With newer hardware and drivers, I'm still fighting to get it to work on Windows!
LeatherMan on 30/1/2008 at 03:42
I can confirm Thief 2 works with the latest Wine, and it is not hardware accelerated (originally thought it was due to improved performance but screenshot comparisons say otherwise), but performance is very good. The latest Cedega also works but is very laggy even @ 640x480.
The cursor is still an issue in the latest Wine (9.54), however (!!), someone just submitted a patch yesterday which fixes this issue. :) Patching wine isn't too hard, but it isn't for everyone (download source code, apply patch, compile, install).
The cutscenes still don't work with either, so I simply edit the config files deleting the path to the movies folder and use mplayer to view the movies when needed.
Audio acceleration works, but EAX does not. Dual core CPUs are also an issue (just like in Windows), but the workaround with Wine isn't difficult.
Graphics and performance wise, wine still isn't as good as Windows, but it is very playable on my system (Athlon64 2.0GHz + GF 6800) @ 1024x768.
